qbittorrent/qBittorrent
qBittorrent BitTorrent client
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Where it stands
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Ranks #260 of 2,841 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 9%).
3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 8 days ago, with 394 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #47 in the weekly ranking the week of Oct 19, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements a cross-platform BitTorrent client using C++ and Qt for efficient peer-to-peer file sharing.
- Offers a fast, stable, and feature-rich alternative to other BitTorrent clients with integrated libtorrent support.
- Use for downloading and managing large files via BitTorrent with a user-friendly graphical interface.
- Use for developers needing a customizable open-source BitTorrent client to integrate or extend torrent functionality.
- Use for users requiring detailed peer country resolution using an IP-to-country database for network analysis.
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- Contributing guide: present
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From the README
qBittorrent is a bittorrent client programmed in C++ / Qt that uses libtorrent (sometimes called libtorrent-rasterbar) by Arvid Norberg.
It aims to be a good alternative to all other bittorrent clients out there. qBittorrent is fast, stable and provides unicode support as well as many features.
The free IP to Country Lite database by DB-IP is used for resolving the countries of peers. The database is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Refer to the INSTALL file.
Starting from v3.3.4 all source tarballs and binaries are signed.
The key currently used is 4096R/5B7CC9A2 with fingerprint
D8F3DA77AAC6741053599C136E4A2D025B7CC9A2.You can also download it from here.
PREVIOUSLY the following key was used to sign the v3.3.4 source tarballs and v3.3.4 Windows installer only: 4096R/520EC6F6 with fingerprint
F4A5FD201B117B1C2AB590E2A1ACCAE4520EC6F6.
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Forks
4.9K+134
Open issues
2.7K+48
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| DietrichGebert/ponytail | 162.8K | +7.3K | 75 | today |
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| OpenCut-app/OpenCut | 93.9K | +2.3K | 59 | 18 days ago |
| FalkorDB/FalkorDB | 8.2K | +1.6K | 75 | today |
| qbittorrent/qBittorrent | 40.6K | +0 | 75 | 8 days ago |
| Category median | 93.9K | +4.2K | 75 | — |
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